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Boulainvilliers ! Comte de Saire ! What will our great grandchildren think of that
name ? Fame is indeed a riddle ! ... time I refer to , wit - learning - grace - all
things that charm and enlightenwere supposed to centre in one word -
Boulainvilliers !
Boulainvilliers ! Comte de Saire ! What will our great grandchildren think of that
name ? Fame is indeed a riddle ! ... time I refer to , wit - learning - grace - all
things that charm and enlightenwere supposed to centre in one word -
Boulainvilliers !
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Vous avez raison , ' said Boulainvilliers : - Let us pick out some poor devil to
begin with . Absent or present ? —Decide which . ' “ Oh , absent , ' cried Chaulieu
; ' ' tis a thousand times more piquant to slander than to rally ! Let us commence
with ...
Vous avez raison , ' said Boulainvilliers : - Let us pick out some poor devil to
begin with . Absent or present ? —Decide which . ' “ Oh , absent , ' cried Chaulieu
; ' ' tis a thousand times more piquant to slander than to rally ! Let us commence
with ...
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said Boulainvilliers , gravely , — piety is as natural to kings as flattery to their
courtiers : are we not told that they are made in God's own image ! “ If that were
true , ' said Count Hamilton , somewhat profanelyif that were true , I should no
longer ...
said Boulainvilliers , gravely , — piety is as natural to kings as flattery to their
courtiers : are we not told that they are made in God's own image ! “ If that were
true , ' said Count Hamilton , somewhat profanelyif that were true , I should no
longer ...
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L'amour - l'amour - toujours l'amour , with Count Anthony Hamilton ' said
Boulainvilliers . He is always on that subject ; and , sacre bleu ! when he was
younger , I am told he was like Cacus , the son of Vulcan , and breathed nothing
but flames ...
L'amour - l'amour - toujours l'amour , with Count Anthony Hamilton ' said
Boulainvilliers . He is always on that subject ; and , sacre bleu ! when he was
younger , I am told he was like Cacus , the son of Vulcan , and breathed nothing
but flames ...
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Count Hamilton , ' said Boulainvilliers , 6 are we not a merry set for such old
fellows ? Why , excepting Arouet , Milord Bolingbroke , and Count Devereux ,
there is scarcely one of us under seventy . Where , but at Paris , would you see
bons ...
Count Hamilton , ' said Boulainvilliers , 6 are we not a merry set for such old
fellows ? Why , excepting Arouet , Milord Bolingbroke , and Count Devereux ,
there is scarcely one of us under seventy . Where , but at Paris , would you see
bons ...
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